Scoot plans November 2015 touchdown in Melbourne
Singapore Airlines owned long-haul low-cost carrier Scoot has announcement plans to begin services to Melbourne next year. Melbourne will become Scoot’s fourth Australian destination when five times weekly Boeing 787-9 services begin on November 1 2015. “We’ve heard loud and clear the demands of Scoot to fly to Melbourne, and we’re delighted to finally be
Qantas launches Brisbane-Narita, Sydney-Haneda services
Qantas is set to begin new four times weekly services between Brisbane and Tokyo Narita from August 1 2015, and has announced it will shift its daily Sydney-Tokyo flights from Narita to Haneda from July 31 2015. And a further three times weekly service to Narita, operating on alternate days to the Brisbane flights, will
Quickstep secures third C-130J flap production deal
Quickstep says it has secured a new purchase order to build a further 12 flap sets plus spares for Lockheed Martin’s C-130J Hercules airlifter. The flaps are covered by a December 2013 memorandum of agreement with Lockheed Martin to supply more than 120 carbon fibre flaps for the C-130J aircraft through until 2018. The latest
Qantas flags $300-350 million first half profit
Qantas has guided the market to an underlying profit before tax in the first half of 2014/15 in the vicinity of $300 million to $350 million amid lower fuel prices and as the airline group’s cost cutting measures bear fruit. The airline said in a statement released to the Australian stock exchange on Monday all of
ATSB to reopen Pel-Air ditching investigation
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) will open a fresh investigation into the ditching of a Pel-Air Westwind corporate jet off Norfolk Island in 2009. The decision to reopen the case was made following a critical review of the original inquiry by the Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB), which found the ATSB did not
AirAsia X to withdraw from Adelaide in January 2015
Adelaide is the first Australian casualty in AirAsia X’s move to cut capacity and turn around recent losses, with the low-cost carrier to end services to the City of Churches in late January. AirAsia X’s last flight will depart Adelaide on January 25, according to the Airline Route website. The airline flagged reductions to its
